10.15-10.22.2025 Stand Up

 

 

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Stand Up

10.15-10.22.25

 Now It’s Your Turn 

Feeling anxious? That’s a natural reaction when the world needs you. Support the local music scene at the annual Rock Solid Gala hosted by Cleveland Rocks PPF at the Treelawn this Saturday. Celebrate four innovative immigrant Jewish women fashion designers at WRHS on Friday. Get a jump on Halloween at Piranhas & Pumpkins at the Greater Cleveland Aquarium all weekend long. Roll back the clock to the real Bohemian Rhapsody with Les Délices at an Akron church.

Once your heart is full, it’s time to exercise your voice for what’s right, before it’s too late. Stand with Lake County’s almost 25% Hispanic population at “No ICE in Lake County,” organized by the Lake Geauga Fights Back Network in downtown Painsville on Monday. Support the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless at their NEOCH-tober Fest at St. Ed’s in Lakewood and “invest in housing and dignity for our unhoused neighbors.” Join millions this Sat 10/18 at the peaceful pro-Democracy NO KINGS rallies in Chagrin Falls, Strongsville, Parma, Cleveland’s Free Stamp and everywhere across our proud and free nation. We stand together.

 

 

 STAND UP FOR DEMOCRACY 

This past June, “No Kings” rallies were held across the country, mobilizing millions of people protesting an out-of-control federal government attacking our freedoms and making life harder for regular working people. 

Things have gotten worse since then. So there’ll be another series of rallies this Saturday 10/18. In light of increased attacks on democracy these rallies could be much larger.

 While Speaker of the House Mike Johnson claims these events will be packed with “Marxists” and “antifa” (which doesn’t even exist), it will actually be everyday Americans upset about corruption and lawless government violating our Constitution. They’ll gather at the Free Stamp for a rally at 1pm followed by a march. Many suburbs will also be hosting rallies.

 

 

 A SOUTH AMERICAN JOURNEY OF HOPE  

“Our photo book from our South American trip was delivered yesterday,” says CoolCleveland travel writer Claudia Taller. “As I looked at the bright pictures of Chilean and Argentinian Patagonia and bustling cities of Santiago and Buenos Aires, I remembered our March trip as if we just returned home yesterday. That trip showed us a world very much like ours.” 

“Once a broad wilderness with peaceful people fishing and foraging, the conquistadors marched in and conquered it in the narcissistic way Europeans always have,” she writes. “Chile and Argentina both suffered “disappearances” and vengeful rulers in the late twentieth century. They are democracies today.”

 

 

 REPORT SHOWS CHALLENGES FACED BY INDIE VENUES 

The National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) has released a study showing that a majority of small venues are losing money. In Ohio only 20% are breaking even or coming out ahead, despite creating jobs and producing billions in economic benefits. Some lawmakers are trying to pass legislation to give them some help, while college radio supporters are drawing attention to its critical role in promoting small clubs.

 

 STANDING UP FOR NEIGHBORS 

Lake County seat Painesville has grown in recent decades and one of the reasons is its increased population of Mexican immigrants, who have enhanced its culture and economy. But the Lake County is one of four Ohio counties to cooperate with federal ICE agents. A No ICE demonstration will take place outside the Lake County sheriff’s office Monday October 20 @ 6pm.

 

WEDNESDAY
10/15

 

Last April the Wildlife Photographer of the Year show came to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, featuring the best of nearly 60,000 entries of stunning nature photography. Now you have just until October 26 to catch it!

 MORE on WEDNESDAY… 

* Local bluegrass folk ensemble plays lunchtime concert at Trinity Cathedral.

 

THURSDAY
10/16

 

Sports betting has taken gambling out of casinos and placed it on your phone, with a heavy blitz of advertising encouraging participation. The Akron Roundtable’s next forum looks at the potential fallout at-your-fingertips gambling.

 MORE on THURSDAY… 

FRIDAY
10/17

 

Pride Month was last June, but the LGBTQ+ community needs all the support it can get in light of the slander and hate thrown its way these days. Kent Rainbow Days offers three days of celebration, ranging from a craft market to drag shows, a fun run to an art show by students, live music to a bar crawl.

 MORE on FRIDAY… 

 

SATURDAY
10/18

 

The nonprofit Cleveland Rocks: Past Present Future provides musicians with education and opportunities to grow their careers. The annual Rock Solid Benefit at the Treelawn helps fund its work.

 MORE on SATURDAY… 

SUNDAY
10/19

 

NEO guitarist Neil Zaza created a multimedia extravaganza called One Dark Night, blending rock and classical music, and adding film, lighting, props and more to tell a story about the genesis of evil. He’s bringing it to the Akron Civic Theatre.

 MORE on SUNDAY… 

She Rocks spotlights music by Pittsburgh composer Nancy Galbraith.

MONDAY
10/20

 

The monthly musicians’ workshops at the Cleveland Rocks Shop typically deal with nuts-and-bolts issues like booking your band or choosing the best mic for your sound. But tonight the topic is how essential college radio is to building local musicians’ careers and creating a thriving music scene.

 

TUESDAY
10/21

 

The Cleveland Chamber Music Society is bringing back the noted multi-national Belcea Quartet to perform music by Anton Webern, Benjamin Britten and that perennial crowd pleaser, Mozart.

WEDNESDAY
10/22

 

Tonight the Cleveland Arts Prize will hold its annual awards event, honoring four creative artists from NE Ohio — a poet, a classical guitarist, a visual artist and photographer — along with two individuals and an organization who have given invaluable support to the arts.

 MORE on WEDNESDAY… 

BACKTALK

 

Now is the time.-Thomas Mulready
CoolCleveland.com

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